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Rivers and Streams Write Everything in PURPLE! !
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Rivers vs. Streams
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How a V-shaped Valley Forms Link to web Link to web
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V-shaped Valley
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Cut Bank and Point Bar Identify each of them in the picture below
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Cutbank & point bar Point bar – sediments get deposited cutbank – sediments get eroded
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Young Rivers Generally straight, narrow course of the river. Waterfalls Niagara Falls
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Old Rivers Generally flat areas Wide flood plains Meanders Owens Valley, CA
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Meandering River Can you find the old meanders in the picture?
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Oxbow Lake http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcqv5m http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/oxbow Oxbow lake and Chippewa River, Wisconsin http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcqv5m http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/oxbow
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Alluvial Fans Death Valley, CA
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Delta (no not the airline) Mississippi Delta The mouth of a river where sediments get deposited
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Flood Plain
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What happens when you build a city on a flood plain?
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Cincinnati 1997
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Newport Ky
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Newport, KY (across the river)
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Dayton/Bellevue, KY 1997
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Natural Levee
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Levee Break
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